Projects
Understanding the implementation of care pathways. Process evaluation of the implementation of an evidence-based care pathway for colorectal cancer surgery in a multicenter setting. KU Leuven
Understanding the implementation of care pathways. Process evaluation of the implementation of an evidence-based care pathway for colorectal cancer surgery in a multicenter setting
Introduction
During the past decades, perioperative care for patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer has shifted towards more standardized care, the so-called ‘enhanced recovery after surgery’ (ERAS). Those standardized programs aim to ...
Critical Evaluation of the Role of Historical Landscape Conservation in Sustainable Regional Development: Case of the Royal Gardens of Rajnagar in Bundelkhand KU Leuven
India presently faces the onset of rapid development and change in every part of the country. Although the current GDP of 7.9% (Trading Economics 2016) shows positive trends, these indicators are often based on standards and indicators which focus very heavily on only the economic output of the country as per the Neo- Classical model of Economics (Czech 2010). The indicators tend to ignore the significance of the cultural, social and natural ...
Immanuel Kant’s Deduction of the Categories of Quantity as a Stepping Stone to Exploring the Relation between Transcendental and Formal Logic and their respective Metaphysical Implications Ghent University
For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant’s categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect this debate, which we call the "Derivation Controversy," to an analysis of the distinction between formal and transcendental logic, as well as to an analysis of the relation between logic and metaphysics in Kant's philosophy. The debate is ...
An ethical analysis of the impact of recent strategies to promote living organ donation on the moral foundations of organ transplantation Ghent University
Since at least 20 years the domain of transplantation is facing a severe shortage of available organs. Many countries are focusing on boosting living donation as the primary means for increasing the number of organs. To a considerable extent, the rise in the volume of living donation can be explained by the implementation of novel strategies. These include: (1) relaxing acceptable donor categories to allow living donation by total strangers ...
Immunology and gut microbiotica: the assesment of microbial inflammation potential through the development of a metagenome analytic framework. KU Leuven
Summary
More than eighty years after the isolation of the first gastrointestinal bacterium in 1885, research on the microbes inside our body finally took off. Since then, improvements in culturing techniques paved the way for the exploration of the complex microbial community inside our guts. In the last decades, the rapid development of sequencing approaches, allowing the identification of our microbial companions based on their DNA, ...
Transitional care in adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease: multi-level analysis of healthcare system factors, hospital and patient characteristics impacting lanck of cardiac follow-up. KU Leuven
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect in newborns, affecting about 9 per 1,000 babies worldwide. It comprises a wide spectrum of anatomical defects of the heart and/or great intrathoracic vessels that have a variable long-term impact on patients’ health status, functionalities, and overall well-being. While CHD was one of the most common causes of infant mortality around the 1960s, about 90% of children with CHD ...
Economic Evaluations of Welfare Interventions: from Hurdles to Implementation KU Leuven
Social welfare is defined as a broad concept including various systems of social services such as healthcare, social care, employment, housing and societal regeneration. In one way or another, these social services have an impact on an individual’s well-being.
Effective social welfare interventions are aiming at inducing long-term changes on both the individual as well as environmental levels in order to improve an individual’s ...
There is no such thing as a free run. The determining factors of sports expenditure KU Leuven
The current doctoral thesis focusses on the determining factors of sports participants’ expenditure. From an economic point of view this is an important research subject, as the sports industry directly contributes to Western economic welfare and accounts for an increasing share of total employment and GDP. This is not surprising, as figures indicate 64.3% of the Flemish population practices sports at least once a year. The majority of this ...
Quarry Workers, Stonemasons, and their Work Dynamics in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Sagalassos (South-Western Anatolia), Technological, Chronological and Socio-Economic Aspects in the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean KU Leuven
Quarries, Stone Carving, and Stone Implementation in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Sagalassos (South-Western Anatolia), Technological, Chronological and Socio-Economic Aspects in the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean
Frans Doperé
Synopsis of the Proposed Research Project
Scientific Basis
The registration and analysis of the stone carving techniques on different technical categories of building stones used ...